For the last two years, the cult newsletter Perfectly Imperfect has offered a window into the changing guard of New York City’s downtown scene with a deceptively simple premise: “Cool people like cool things.” Started during the loneliest days of the pandemic, the newsletter offers highly curated recommendations from on-the-cusp tastemakers and aspiring aesthetes including…
Courtesy of retailer Not to alarm anyone (myself included), but Thanksgiving is just a little over one month away. Whichever way you see the holiday going, whether it’s multi-course meals, football games, the unpredictable table talk, or all of the above, there’s no doubt that the major family gathering is something to prep for—and that’s…
ASHLAND, Ore. — When she decided to leave Texas, Sarah Cook dreamed of her ideal new home. She shared what she imagined with friends: a small city that offered natural beauty, a slower pace and an audience for the kind of artful, intricate food she made at Kyōten Sushiko, a six-seat omakase restaurant in Austin…
Headliner Artesano At 31, Rodrigo Fernandini, who is from Chiclayo, Peru, on the coast, north of the capital, Lima, is embarking on a new phase of his career with this New York debut. He moved to California from Peru in 2016 and worked at several Michelin-starred restaurants in Silicon Valley. Now, with several partners, he’s…
Unilever has issued a voluntary recall of more than a dozen aerosol dry shampoo products sold in the United States, saying they may contain elevated levels of benzene, a carcinogen. The affected products were produced before October 2021, the conglomerate said, and are from several different brands owned by Unilever: Dove, Nexxus, Suave, TIGI and…
“A stressful experience when we thought we would have to sleep on a bench in Central Park,” said Erica, from the United States. And María, from Argentina, made it seem like the number was probably greater than seven. “The people in charge, who I believe were government employees, told us that travelers frequently appeared looking…
Shortly after John Mayer started performing with Dead & Company, the current iteration of the rock band the Grateful Dead that features some of its surviving members, fans began sending him T-shirts. “These really thoughtful packages,” he recalled recently, “like welcoming me to the neighborhood.” The Grateful Dead has a rich history of bootleg merchandise…
In 1980, Mr. Holmes and his wife, Liza, a lawyer, settled in Tenafly, N.J. They had a snug house they loved in a nice community that was within quick reach of the city. But when the couple’s 10-year-old daughter, Wendy, died suddenly from an undiagnosed brain tumor in 1986, “we couldn’t stay there,” he said.…
Robin Feldman, an expert on pharmaceutical intellectual property at the University of California Hastings College of Law, said the conflict over psychedelics reflects the larger problems of a patent system that saddles Americans with some of the highest prescription drug prices in the world. “It’s not pretty when you look under the hood,” she said.…
We all had our fun with mini skirts as everyone strutted out wearing their best micro-minis, but nothing beats a maxi skirt to grab someone’s full attention. As we transition our wardrobes to fully embrace the fall season, I begin to remember the main reasons why maxi skirts are supreme: They’re seasonless, versatile, and a…